The Most Dangerous Branch: How the Supreme Court of Canada Has Undermined Our Law and Our Democracy

by Robert Ivan Martin

One of those rare books with the potential to revive a dying society. National Post

Genres: Law

320 pages, Paperback

First published November 19, 2003

Reviews

[Jason]

This book is excellent at showing how the Supreme Court of Canada has abandoned any kind of principled approach to applying the Law and the Constitution. Their decisions are all ad hoc and based upon the personal agendas of the judges. Martin shows how some of the judges had no interest in following the Constitution at all, but wanted to rewrite it to suit their own ideological positions. This was accomplished primarily through judicial review of government legislation. One thing I would like to have seen in this book though is more focus on what should be done to fix the problem.